Author: Leslie Bolden
Delay In Florida Abortion Waiting Period Sought
Anticipating a ruling that will uphold a 24-hour abortion waiting period in Florida, opponents have asked a judge to at least temporarily delay putti [...]
Foes Ask Judge To Block Florida ‘Intellectual Freedom’ Surveys
Opponents of a controversial 2021 law asked a federal judge this weekend to prevent the state from moving forward with surveys about “intellectual fr [...]
Florida AG Moody, Death Row Inmate Battle Over DNA Testing
In a case involving a man who has been on Death Row for more than four decades, Attorney General Ashley Moody’s office and the inmate’s lawyers are b [...]
Florida Judge Expected To Back Abortion Waiting Period
A Leon County circuit judge indicated Wednesday she will uphold a 2015 state law that would require women to wait 24 hours before having abortions, o [...]
Sentence Upheld In Pipe Bombings At Florida A&M University
More than two decades after pipe-bomb explosions shook Florida A&M University, a federal appeals court Wednesday upheld a 54-year prison sentence [...]
Florida Judge To Consider Abortion Waiting Period
A Leon County circuit judge will hear arguments Wednesday as the state tries to end a challenge to a 2015 law aimed at requiring women to wait 24 hou [...]
Florida Planned Spending Ranges From Airplanes To Zoos
A $112.1 billion budget that lawmakers passed last week covers more than the state’s basics for education, health care, and law enforcement.
The b [...]
Court Sides With Florida Juvenile On Zoom Hearing
A divided state appeals court Friday sided with a juvenile who objected to the use of Zoom technology to hold a hearing on allegations that he violat [...]
Tobacco Industry Gets Win At Florida Supreme Court
In what a dissenting justice called a “fundamental shift,” the Florida Supreme Court on Thursday issued a ruling that likely will make it harder for [...]
Lawsuit Asks Federal Court To Set Florida Congressional Map
With Gov. Ron DeSantis vowing to veto a congressional redistricting plan, a lawsuit filed late Friday asks a federal court to set new U.S. House dist [...]